S [side 2] Cecil Taylor Unit Nicaragua: No Pasaran Nica : 1984 CT, piano; Jimmy Lyons, alto sax; William Parker, bass; Rashid Bakr, drums; André Martinez, percussion; Brenda Bakr, vocals. Chilly Jay Chill: This is one of Cecil's rarest records, a live date in Willisau from 1983. It sits between the wonderful solo joint Garden and the classic big band Winged Serpent on the [...]
By Robert Ham Movie - Decoder (Muscha, 1984) What's on Network Awesome today? To understand the power that a film like Decoder can wield over the people watching it, try this experiment: turn down the brightness on your computer screen until it is completely blank (or for the low-tech version, just shut your eyes while the video plays). Even if you don't have a working knowledge of the German language, the [...]
Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Roadrunner Records Can you imagine a world where, instead of fossil fuels, modern machinery runs on the power of steam and everyone's favourite band is Rush ? If so, you've glimpsed into the alternate reality that unfolds in the forthcoming steampunk novel from sci-fi author Kevin J. Anderson. The best-selling scribe of over 100 genre books, including titles for the ' Star Wars ,' [...]
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It's kind of narrowing and frightening to think that things the great American poet & author William S. Burroughs intended as a barb at the things we celebrate on Thanksgiving, in his briliant monotone delivery of "A Thanksgiving Prayer", are actually being repeated by people with sincerity in 2011. The Fred Phelps's, Rick Perry's and Michele Bachmann's of the world seem even more delusional and self-evolutionary when you consider the following piece. The video, directed by Gus Van Sant , is a simple and agile affair, allowing the words and music which underpin [...]
This year - 2011, if you forgot - marks the 20 th anniversary of the release of Nirvana 's Nevermind . As with all such moments, reissues, tributes, and all kinds of analysis and discussion will spring from the well. I don't recall this much fuss when The White Album turned 20. I am not here to fellate Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, or their legacy, nor am I here to kick them in the balls. Let me say for the record that I do like Nirvana. I was just never one of those kids [...]
of Montreal's music is hard to define, given it changes more often than frontman Kevin Barnes' sequined and feathered outfits during a live show. One album might be heavy on the drum machine and synthesizer, while another showcases Barnes' best high-pitched Prince wail with more traditional strings and percussion. The Atlanta band boasts a prodigious [...]
NPR is streaming last night's Bon Iver concert. Stream the BBC Arena documentary on William S. Burroughs. Pitchfork interviews Simon Reynolds about his new book, Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past . Dana Spiotta talks to the Los Angeles Times about her new novel, [...]
Today is the 17th anniversary of the day that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was found dead after shooting himself at age 27. Here's a photo, thanks to Rolling Stone, of author William S. Burroughs and C... Continue reading "Kurt Cobain in Lawrence with William S. Burroughs" >
Mutate or die is what the William S Burroughs said. Now people are trying to mix up his doodie with someone else's special mess. Art is fun!
Director: Yony Leyser Running time: 88 minutes William S. Burroughs: A Man Within chronicles the existence of one of the greatest Beat and American writers of the modern age, through what can only be regarded as a rather turbulent existence. Undoubtedly, the author of works such as Naked Lunch, Junkie and The Soft Machine , lived quite an eventful life. Married twice, a closet homosexual and a junkie for a large portion of his life, Burroughs career would have been lost in scandal were it not for [...]
In last week's DVD roundup I recommended a documentary called William S. Burroughs: A Man Within. Tonight, you can see the whole thing when PBS ...
Filed under: News Oscilloscope He was the grandfather of the Beats, the reluctant godfather of punk , a transgressive author and a true individual -- so testify William S. Burroughs' friends and disciples Patti Smith , Iggy Pop , Dead Kennedys ' Jello Biafra , Thurston Moore and John Waters in the new documentary ' William S. Burroughs: A Man Within .' To celebrate tomorrow's DVD release of the film, [...]
We saw this on KEXP and wanted to share. A brilliant piece by Michelle Meyers. Each week the KEXP Documentary team brings you a musical subject in the time it takes to play just one song. This week we started a new 10-part series of radio stories called "Poets and Music," exploring the interplay of the beat and the word with profiles on our favorite KEXP poets. We'll bring you the [...]
William S. Burroughs tells a Christmas tale for the ages, in which Danny the Carwiper , dopesick and freely sprung from prison, learns the true spirit of giving on Christmas Day. He is rewarded with divine intervention, and scores "for the immaculate fix." Merry Christmas Download: "A Junky's Christmas" mp3 by William S. Burroughs, 1993. available on Spare Ass Annie & Other Tales This can also seen as an animated claymation short: [...]
A Christmas Day in the life of a heroin addict.
Drunken fights between distant relations notwithstanding, Thanksgiving may be the most un-brutal holiday of the year. Unlike Christmas ("No Presents for Christmas") or Valentine's Day ("No Love Lost"), it's the one holiday that seems be passed over by metal and hardcore bands every year. Thus, we bring you "Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986," a spoken word piece by one of the most fucked up,
Bill Burroughs. As acerbic as ever.
William S. Burroughs once wrote, " The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client ." While Katie Eary 's Spring-Summer Collection is not junk, it certainly does degrade and simplify the client (or wearer). Eary's collection, entitled " Naked Lunch " after Burroughs's 1959 novel of the same name, is paradoxical, insofar as Eary's costuming represents a stripping down. Simply put, to dress up is to undress, [...]
¿Que han hecho los Beastie Boys en todo este tiempo de silencio? Pues mientras Adam "MCA" combatía una grave enfermedad, se dio tiempo de adquirir los derechos para realizar un documental sobre la vida del poeta más influyente de la era Beat, el junkie más socialité de todos los tiempos William S. Burroughs . Y lo mejor de todo, es que el documental ya está listo y pronto lo podremos adquirir en DVD (es difícil que se estrene en México, a no ser que algún festival se anime). Como era de esperarse, artistas [...]
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